HustlingHat93's Road to 123lb and Weak to Strong

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@oldnattychris

The rest of the thread is worth reading too

Agree 100%. It’s one of the threads I follow but don’t say much on.

@oldnattychris

I don’t have a good answer for how to deal with this form of pre-training, psych-out stress, so if you come up with something, please do let me know.

For me the reason I started setting out goals for the week was to deal with this. The way I set up my goals is by looking at the previous week + the previous cycle of the programme and somehow that always ends up with logic saying I should hit the weight for the prescribed numbers so the stress kinda disolves.

@Cyrrex

Go up to it like you own it, get BOTH FEET under the bar during the unrack and lift it off like you are the boss.

This is 100% me when I get worried and intimated by a weight
I never train with music anymore and always listen to podcasts and try to be as relaxed as possible mentally BUT… WHEN I NEED TO… The angry music comes out for that set, I get angry/ pumped up and legit stomp into the ground when i’m getting under the bar with a “Dominate mindset”…

But be hilarious for the big dudes to see a little skinny guy with dyed hair look like an angry chihuahua

@OTHSteve

walk it out and stand there for a few seconds, and then re-rack it. That way feeling the weight you’re actually going to squat on your back isn’t the system shock it would otherwise be.

That’s actually a very good idea I permanently might add that to my warm up for heavy days !